Department of Medicine II (Division of Cardiology)
Position: Doctor-in-training
ORCID: 0000-0002-0141-7639
christian.nitsche@medunwien.ac.at
Keywords
Amyloidosis; Aortic Valve Stenosis; Cardiac Imaging Techniques; Endomyocardial Fibrosis; Heart Failure; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Mitral Valve; Multidetector Computed Tomography; Tricuspid Valve
Research interests
My main research focus is to improve outcome prediction in valvular heart disease using multimodality imaging. Our lab has a strong focus on non-invasive myocardial tissue characterization by cardiovascular magnetic resonance but strives to combine state of the art imaging workup from a broad range of diagnostic modalities (e.g. nuclear imaging techniques, echocardiography, multidetector computed tomography)
Techniques, methods & infrastructure
State of the art echocardiography, CMR, and nuclear imaging
Selected publications
- Nitsche, C. et al. (2021) ‘Prevalence and Outcomes of Concomitant Aortic Stenosis and Cardiac Amyloidosis’, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 77(2), pp. 128–139. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2020.11.006.
- Nitsche, C. et al. (2020) ‘Light‐chain and transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis in severe aortic stenosis: prevalence, screening possibilities, and outcome’, European Journal of Heart Failure, 22(10), pp. 1852–1862. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ejhf.1756.
- Nitsche, C. et al. (2021) ‘Volume Status Impacts CMR–Extracellular Volume Measurements and Outcome in AS Undergoing TAVR’, JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging, 14(2), pp. 516–518. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcmg.2020.08.010.
- Nitsche, C. et al. (2020) ‘Determinants of Bioprosthetic Aortic Valve Degeneration’, JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging, 13(2), pp. 345–353. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcmg.2019.01.027.
- Nitsche, C. et al. (2021) ‘Fluid overload in patients undergoing TAVR: what we can learn from the nephrologists’, ESC Heart Failure, 8(2), pp. 1408–1416. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ehf2.13226.